Congressional Black Caucus Introduces Trayvon Martin Resolution

Several Congressional Black Caucus members have introduced a resolution that memorializes 17-year-old Trayvon Martin and calls for the repeal of controversial gun laws that allow shooters to claim self-defense.

The resolution states that the February shooting of Martin “sets a horrific precedent of vigilante justice and compromises the integrity of the legal system.” It also says assailant George Zimmerman’s “unfounded assumptions and racial bias led to the use of deadly force.”

The CBC feasts on “unfounded assumptions and racial bias.” It could not exist without them.

As for their resolution, it’s a four-page affront to sound thought.

“As the Department of Justice continues its thorough investigation into Trayvon Martin’s untimely death, it is time for us as legislators to look at the troubling ‘Stand Your Ground’ law, which has enabled George Zimmerman to remain free,” CBC Chairman Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.) said in a statement.

They’re literally not even waiting on the investigation’s results before jumping to conclusions.

Bryan Preston has been a leading conservative blogger and opinionator since founding his first blog in 2001. Bryan is a military veteran, worked for NASA, was a founding blogger and producer at Hot Air, was producer of the Laura Ingraham Show and, most recently before joining PJM, was Communications Director of the Republican Party of Texas.

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David W

I’ll be waiting for Mr. West to respond to this stupidity (like ignoring the hundreds of blacks who have been killed but not by whites).

I wonder whether anyone will offer a competing resolution expressing great sorrow at the death of Mr. Martin as well as all others killed or even attacked by those of different races or gender orientations.

“They’re literally not even waiting on the investigation’s results before jumping to conclusions.”

Why should they? Everybody knows that the white DNA in George Zimmerman’s blood, combined with the close proximity
to a gun, inexplorably led him to his racist act, almost as if on instinctual basis (how could it not have?); whereas everyone also knows that a young 17-year male suspended the day before, who had committed acts of vandalism, with a self-made moniker of “No Limits Nigga”, and who had been found with property on him that more likely than not had been stolen by *somebody*–well, everybody knows it is absolutely inconceivable that such a kid could ever have thrown the first punch, even if one posits perhaps he really really did not like being followed. It is a physical impossibility. Thus I fully support the Congressional Black Caucus, the caucus that cares for all Americans more than any one particular group.

I’d like to express my deep sorrow that a racist flim-flam like the CBC even exists in America in 21012 and no one in Congress stands up, points a finger and says, “Get out.”

Every one likes to pretend they would’ve been John Dunbar in “Dances With Wolves,” that they would’ve been on the right side of the slavery issue in 1830 and on the right barricades in revolutionary France. The fact is that many people don’t even know the right side in the first place if you judge them in their own time and culture, and then you need the courage to do the right thing.

The fact the CBC even exists is its own explanation why people in other times shouldn’t be judged by our own standards. The truth is, we have our own massive stupidities to NOT do anything about. 100 years from now people will be asking why a racist organization like the CBC was put up with in the center of American power so don’t ask any more frickin’ questions about tears, trails, or slaves. We are each of us a product of our cultures, not ancient Greece or Asimov’s Foundation.

Yes. However, unless a competing resolution is offered, consideration of the CBC resolution could put a lot of Congresscritters, fearful of being labeled “racists,” on the spot unnecessarily and inappropriately. A competing resolution of the sort I suggested in #4 would be far less incendiary and even be passed instead.

imho, this racism smoke screen is just getting cranked up. dem’s must do whatever they have to do to keep people from looking hard at the questionable amerikan gansta el presidente. if i am right, this stupidity will intensify, and when the kenyan gets hammered in nov., they will have their excuse to try to declare marshal law. he hasn’t been writing all those stupid new unconstitutional laws giving himself special powers during times of unrest for nothing. ignoring these people’s criminal intentions doesn’t make them go away, or haven’t we learned that lesson yet?